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Jamie's Italy [Hardcover]

Jamie Oliver (Author)
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Publication Date: 3 Oct 2005

Explore Jamie's Italy - travel on a culinary tour with Jamie Oliver

Ever since working at the River Café for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, Jamie Oliver has had a serious passion for Italian food. Now, ten years later, Italy and its wonderful flavours continue to have a major influence on his food and cooking. In Jamie's Italy, Jamie travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure Italy's influence reaches us all.

On the menu is an array of magical ingredients and Mediterranean flavours all combined in Jamie Oliver's inimitable way. From Parma ham to Parmesan, from pannetone to panzanella, Jamie's Italy will transport you to Italy or at least bring Italy home to you.

'Brilliant, fabulous. The best of Italian cooking ... a truly inspirational Italian cookery course, teaching you everything from perfect pasta to sensational sea food' Daily Mail

'There is only one Jamie Oliver. Great to watch. Great to cook' Delia Smith

Jamie Oliver's career started as a chef at the River Café, where he was quickly spotted by the television company that made him famous as The Naked Chef. He has since published a huge range of bestselling cookery books, including The Naked Chef, The Return of the Naked Chef, Happy Days with the Naked Chef, Jamie's Kitchen, Jamie's Dinners, Jamie's Ministry of Food, Cook with Jamie, Jamie at Home, Jamie Does, Jamie's Great Britain, Jamie's 30 Minute Meals and Jamie's 15-Minute Meals.

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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph (3 Oct 2005)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 0718147707
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718147709
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (100 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parent's pub The Cricketers in Essex. He has worked with some of the world's top chefs and now runs his own restaurant, Fifteen, in East London. In 2004, he launched the Feed Me Better campaign to improve school dinners which has since started a revolution in schools across the UK. He lives in London with his wife, Jools, and their daughters, Poppy and Daisy.

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116 of 116 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Italians too! 28 Nov 2006
By a reader
Format:Hardcover
I have a confession to make: I am Italian, born and raised in Milan, and Jaime's is one of my favorite cookbooks ever. It sits in my kitchen right next to the big "authentic" Italian tomes on regional cooking, but it gets used much more often. The recipes are great, fresh and traditional with a few personal twists, plenty of flavor, and are all quite easy to make. Some of us love books with beautiful pictures, and he provides plenty. The book is a pleasure to look at. It may not contain a huge number of recipes, but I find that I never use those crowded, unappealing books anyway. Everything I have tried so far has come out beautifully, and I am not at all an experienced cook (even though I am *very* picky when it comes to food quality). Jamie got the seal of approval from a number of friends from all over Italy. Amazing!
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58 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply inspirational 7 April 2007
By De Cauzone
Format:Hardcover
I never really had much time for Jamie Oliver before this book. Like one of the other reviewers here, I am an Italian, I was raised in the south, in Campania and I was bought this book for Christmas. It's beautiful, the feel of the book is rustic and the pages heavy. The photo's brought tears to my eyes, just pictures of everyday people and things. As the other review said, not many recipies, but the quality of the ones that are there will leave you speechless. My only wish is that there was a DVD accompanying this book. It's wonderful, just simply wonderful
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious 5 Oct 2006
By Mark Simpson
Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent book, the recipes are dead easy to follow but give very impressive results. It also has some interesting anecdotes about the origins of the recipes and how Jamie came across them, written in everyday language dripping with enthusiasm. Nicely illustrated too. Easily the most used recipe book in my collection.

I didn't see the TV series, so I can't say how it compares to that, but I would recommend this for anyone with a passing interest in Italian cookery - you will see improvement fast.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic 11 Oct 2006
By Liza Starling
Format:Hardcover
I'm not usually the chef in our household, but using this book I created some wonderful meals. Recipes are easy to follow and his enthusiasm for Italy and Italian food is on every page. Makes cooking fun and mealtimes a proper Italian family affair.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book 25 Mar 2006
By P. Haslehurst
Format:Hardcover
I'm a bit of a cookery book addict, so when I enjoyed Jamie's Italy on TV I knew I had to get the book.

With lots of great pictures, and little snippets of 'wisdom' from the man himself, this is more than a collection of recipes - it's an aspirational manual for a better attitude to eating. Moreover, it's probably the best piece of free marketing the Italian tourist board could have ever wished for.

The recipes vary, as with all recipe books, from the straightforward (and sometimes a little too obvious perhaps) to the advanced. Depending upon your attitude to cooking this can be a blessing or a bit inhibiting. If you've got a bit of practise then you'll be able to enjoy most of the recipes in this book without too much trouble.

Jamie Oliver's take on Italian food is balanced neatly between the traditional and the modern. His personal variations on staples like minestrone, lasagne and pizza all reflect his own flair and passion for fresh ingredients, but also his respect for the "proper way" of doing things. All the recipes that I have sampled have turned out very well. Personal favourites have been "Hunter's Lasagne" and the exquisite Cauliflower Risotto (seriously, you'll never frown upon a cauliflower again).

All in all this book comes highly recommended - it's a pleasure to read and work from.

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92 of 97 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Bolognaise 11 Nov 2005
By Budge Burgess
Format:Hardcover
Jamie Oliver has earned a reputation trying to revitalise school dinners and popularise cuisine (sorry, cooking) as an appropriate activity for young males. "Jamie's Italy" is a beautifully packaged volume - thick, robust, beautifully illustrated, and packed with a wide range of Italian recipes. It's the sort of book which should sell to a young audience and which might just lift student cooking out of the Bolognaise fixation.

The recipes aren't obscure or too difficult for even a novice. The quality of a cookbook can't be judged simply on the novelty value of its recipes - a good cookbook should encourage you to experiment, and this book will do just that. What seems to have been happening with a number of television chefs is an attempt to promote interest in food, not just blind obedience to recipes. Oliver has skills in popularising food and motivating the inexperienced to try their hand. This title confirms this.

"Jamie's Italy" is an effective volume. He runs through a wide range of starters, main courses, salads, soups, and sweets. The essence of the book is about getting a feel for Italian cookery, but at its core is encouragement to get a feel for cookery in the broadest sense. Given Britain's dependence on the monopoly of the supermarket, Oliver is making a statement about a European cooking tradition which has vast regional variety and which still supports local markets and local producers.

In Britain, a lot of the ingredients for these recipes will inevitably be bought from a supermarket, but it might just encourage you to make greater use of local butchers, fishmongers, and greengrocers. The success of supermarkets is in packaging food, making it easy to buy....

It's an encouraging, optimistic volume which has a youthful, dynamic feel to it. It's the sort of book which should find a place on many a student shelf, but it's not simply to be monopolised by the young. Here is a wide range of well-illustrated and lucidly explained recipes and ideas for meals which should stimulate both your gastric juices and your brain cells. Excellent value. Read more ›

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars jaimies food
Ibought this book because I had beento Jaimies restaurant in the old court house in Cheltenham.
excellent food ,so I thought I would buy his book and see if it would be... Read more
Published 24 days ago by prissy
5.0 out of 5 stars My idol.
It's Jamie. His meals are fabulous and I have most of his cook books. If you love Italian food, this book won't disappoint.
Published 24 days ago by isismoonchild
2.0 out of 5 stars not so good
The book is beatuifull but, not too good to perform the recipes. It's a trendy book without a good editorial line to do recipies.
Published 1 month ago by Mikel Alberdi
5.0 out of 5 stars Jamie's cook books.
Any book of Jamie's I have baught is very nice and very easy to understand. This book with Italian recipies is perfect for my collection .
Published 1 month ago by Nancy Lamprinou
3.0 out of 5 stars More Cooking
We love Italian and Jamie has some really tasty meals in this books which, thank goodness, he has made simpler than many Iitalian cook books
Published 1 month ago by Norma
4.0 out of 5 stars Bellisima!
Made me want to go to Italy-the recipes aren't bad either.As usual with Jamies' books - you get what it says on the cover, in this case with added sunshine!
Published 2 months ago by maggie
5.0 out of 5 stars jamie italy
jamie is also a brillant che4f and explains everything i9n great i recommend all his books they are delightful to have as part of your collections
Published 2 months ago by Wendy Barrett
4.0 out of 5 stars Good that I bought it used
I am always scarred of buying new cook books because I'm not sure if I'll like them, but this book had a very good price and it was in a very good situation.
Published 2 months ago by Lorea
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Yet again Jamie has written another great cookery book, takes you to Italy and around all the places you think you will vist next time you go.
Published 3 months ago by lucy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes and an interesting layout
Having lived in Italy for more than 20 years, I like to cook Italian food and look for new recipes. I've definitely found them in this book! Read more
Published 4 months ago by Betty
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